June 27, 2004

U S Tennis
TENNIS: USTA Names 2004 U.S. Olympic Tennis Teams

PRESS RELEASE Release No. 43-2004


USTA NAMES 2004 UNITED STATES OLYMPIC TENNIS TEAMS

Gold Medallists Venus Williams, Serena Williams and Jennifer Capriati
Lead Women's Team

Andy Roddick, Mardy Fish, and Bob and Mike Bryan Lead Men's Team

LONDON, England, June 26, 2004 - The USTA, U.S. women's coach Zina
Garrison and U.S. men's coach Patrick McEnroe today announced the U.S.
Olympic tennis teams that will compete in the 2004 Olympic Games,
August 13-29 in Athens, Greece.

Garrison named the six-player women's team of Venus Williams, Serena
Williams, Jennifer Capriati, and Chanda Rubin as singles players.
Martina Navratilova and Lisa Raymond and Venus Williams and Serena
Williams will compete as doubles teams.

McEnroe named a six-player men's team consisting of Andy Roddick,
Mardy Fish, Vince Spadea and Taylor Dent as singles players. Bob and
Mike Bryan and Roddick and Fish will pair as doubles teams.

The 2004 Olympic tennis competition will be staged August 15-22 on
hard courts at the Athens Olympic Tennis Center. The U.S. women's team
will look to sweep gold medals in both the singles and doubles
competition for a fourth straight Olympiad, while the U.S. men will
seek to return to the medal stand for the first time since the 1996.

"Selection to the U.S. Olympic team is a tremendous honor for these
athletes," said Arlen Kantarian, Chief Executive, Professional Tennis,
USTA. "Each one of these players has worn the Stars and Stripes as
part of U.S. Davis Cup or Fed Cup teams. They know what playing for
more than themselves is all about."

"The U.S. Olympic tennis team competing in Athens is part of an
unprecedented summer in American tennis," said Alan Schwartz, Chairman
of the Board and President, USTA. "The Olympic Games, combined with
the launch of the US Open Series, the spectacle of the US Open, and
the upcoming Davis Cup semifinal will create one of the busiest and
most exciting summers for tennis fans in the United States."

"As a former Olympian, I know that our team will experience one of the
most memorable moments of their careers in Athens," said Garrison. "I
can't wait to walk in the Opening Ceremonies and share with our team
the pride we feel representing the USTA, the sport of tennis, and our
country at the Olympic Games."

"This team is excited and honored to be participating in the Olympic
Games and consider it a downright privilege," said McEnroe. "We are
going to put forth the best possible effort to bring as many medals as
we can back to the United States."

Venus Williams, 24, will be making her second Olympic appearance
having won a gold medal in both women's singles and women's doubles at
the 2000 Olympic Games, joining Helen Wills in 1924 as the only player
to sweep both titles in the same Olympiad. A resident of Palm Beach
Gardens, Fla., Williams holds two Wimbledon and two US Open singles
titles. She is seeking to become the first player to ever repeat an
Olympic gold medal in singles.

Serena Williams, 22, will be making her second Olympic appearance
having won a gold medal in women's doubles at the 2000 Olympic Games
with sister Venus, becoming the first set of siblings to win Olympic
gold in tennis. A resident of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Williams has
won six career Grand Slam singles titles, and in 2003, became one of
only five women to hold all four Grand Slam singles titles within a
12-month period.

Capriati, 28, will be making her second Olympic appearance having won
a gold medal in women's singles at the age of 16 at the 1992 Olympic
Games in Barcelona. A resident of Saddlebrook, Fla., Capriati has won
three Grand Slam singles titles during her career - the 2001 French
Open and the 2001 and 2002 Australian Opens. In 2001, she was named
the USOC's Female Athlete of the Year.

Rubin, 28, was a member of the 1996 U.S. Olympic team but was forced
to withdraw from the competition following the Opening Ceremonies due
to a wrist injury. She is a five-time member of the U.S. Fed Cup team
and was a member of the 1995 U.S. Pan Am Games team. A resident of
Lafayette, La., she was a semifinalist at the 1995 Australian Open.

Navratilova, 47, will be making her Olympic debut in Athens in a
professional tennis career that began in 1973 and includes 18 Grand
Slam singles titles, 39 Grand Slam doubles titles, 167 singles titles,
174 doubles titles and a perfect 40-0 record as member of the U.S. Fed
Cup team. A resident of Aspen, Colo., Navratilova will be the oldest
player to compete for the U.S. in Olympic tennis.

Raymond, 30, will be competing in the Olympics for the first time in
her career. A resident of Wayne, Pa., Raymond holds five career Grand
Slam doubles titles, including the 2001 US Open women's doubles title.
She has represented the United States in Fed Cup for six years.

Roddick, 21, will be competing in the Olympics for the first time in
his career. The resident of Austin, Texas and Boca Raton, Fla., won
his first Grand Slam singles title at the 2003 US Open and finished
last year as the No. 1 player in the world. Roddick holds a 12-3
record as a member of the U.S. Davis Cup.

Fish, 22, also will be competing in the Olympics for the first time in
his career. A resident of Tampa, Fla., Fish has won his first career
singles title on the ATP Tour last fall in Stockholm, Sweden and has
reached four other career singles finals. Fish holds a 3-4 record as a
member of the U.S. Davis Cup team.

Spadea, 29, is making his second Olympic appearance after representing
the United States at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. A
resident of Boca Raton, Fla., Spadea returned to the top 30 in the
world rankings by winning his first ATP singles titles in 223 attempts
in February in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Dent, 23, will be making his Olympic debut and will join his cousin,
U.S. beach volleyball player Misty May as part of the U.S. athlete
delegation in Athens. A resident of Newport Beach, Calif., Dent was a
member of the U.S. Davis Cup team in 2003.

Identical twins Bob and Mike Bryan, 26, will be competing in the
Olympics for the first time. The brothers will join 1904 Olympians
Joseph and Arthur Wear, the great, great uncles of President George W.
Bush, as the only sets of brothers to represent the United States in
Olympic tennis. Residents of Camarillo, Calif., the Bryans are the No.
1 doubles team in the world and won their first career Grand Slam
doubles title at the 2003 French Open. The duo also won a bronze medal
at the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Canada.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Venus Williams became the second
woman to win Olympic gold medals in singles and doubles, defeating
Elena Dementieva of Russia in the gold medal match in women's singles,
while pairing with sister Serena Williams to defeat Miriam Oremans and
Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands in the gold medal match in women's
doubles. American women have swept gold medals in singles and doubles
during the last four Olympiads.

Andre Agassi was the last American man to win Olympic gold in men's
singles when he defeated Spain's Sergi Bruguera in the gold medal
match at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Ken Flach and Robert
Seguso are the last American team to win Olympic gold in men's doubles
when they defeated Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez of Spain in the
gold medal match at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

Tennis was part of the Olympic program from the first modern Olympiad
in 1896 until 1924. After a 64-year hiatus, tennis returned to the
official Olympic program in 1988, becoming the first sport to feature
professional athletes. Team nominations are subject to approval by the
U.S. Olympic Committee.

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